One-piece adjustable tie



Feb. 21, 1928.

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ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 21, 1928.

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The invention relates in general to an article of apparel and which may constitute an adjustable tie or a belt of, the typewhlch is designed to fit snugly about the waist in the case of a belt or about the different sized collars in the case of a tie.

Adjustable ties of the type herein illustrated havebeen constructed heretofore of two parts, to each part of which is fastened a slip buckle and with one part in each 1nstance threaded through the buckle secured to the other part. One instance of such two part form of adjustable tie is shown in my Patent No. 1,591,240, granted July 6, 1926.

The present disclosure features all of the advantages inherent in structures of the type above outlined relative to snugness of fit, ease of adjustment and the like. The pr1- mar-y object of the present invention is to provide a form of tie which will possess all of the advantages inherent in single length ties and which at the same time may be adjusted as to length without necessity of sewing the buckle or otherwise fixing it in position and in this way the desirable flat construction inherent in one piece ties will be maintained as far as possible, and thus avoid unsightly ridges which would be apt to occur where a multiplicity of layers of material are presented at the adjusting points.

Various other objects and advantages of the invention will be in part obvious from an inspection of the accompanying drawings and in part will be more fully set forth 1n the following particular description of one form of device embodying my invention, and the invention also consists in certain new and novel features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 is a View in front elevation of a tie constituting a preferred embodiment of the invention shown knotted in position on a collar;

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the tie shown in Fig. 1 folded to economize space; and

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through the triple ply back portion and associated dual fasteners and taken-on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

The tie 10 is of conventional form and comprises a one piece article formed of a single length of flexible material. Slidably Jps'rAnLn Tin.

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mounted upon the length of material and of course spaced from the opposite ends and from eachother is "a pair of flat slip buckles 11 and 12 and which buckles are of a con- ,ventional form each comprising three parallel bars 13,14 and15 forming therebetween two parallel slots 16and17. The length of material is looped through these buckles in such way that the ortion of the material between the buckles orms three layers 18, 19 and 20, and the end portions 21 and 22 of the material to the outside of the buckles are held so that practically an desirable length of tie may be provided simply b the adjustment of the lengths of materia s between the two fastening buckles.

Tracing the threadin of the material through the buckles an starting from the left end 21 of the material as shown in Fig. 3 it will be noted that the material is passed S-shaped through the slits 16 and 17 of the left hand buckle 11, across the intervening space between the buckles and through the left hand slit of the right hand buckle 12, then back upon itself about the inner bar 13 of the right hand buckle 12; it is extended across the space between the buckles to form the intermediate ply 19; is then looped about the'middle bar 14 of the left hand buckle 11, bent back upon itself to form the inner ply 20 and is then passed through the slots of the right hand buckle 12, about the middle bar 14 thereof and passed outwardly to form the opposite end 22 of the tie.

It will be noted from this construction that the surplus material beyond the required length is taken up by a single intermediate ply 19. Fastening eyes have been omitted from this form of adjustable tie.

The construction features a flat construction simulatin as far as is physically pos sible the smoot ness on opposite sides which characterizes the neck band portion of a one piece single length tie. As the two buckles are adjustable, both relative to each other and relative to the ends of the tie, it is possible notonly to make an adjustment in allover length, but it is also possible to locate the buckles at any desirable place relative to the collar. In this way it is possible to locate the three ply flat portion shown in Fig. 3 to either side of the rear collar button and obviously the buckles may be spaced on opsn'Lncro-scnnr COBBPQATION,

posite sides of the rear collar button. This is particularly desirable in those cases where the wearer uses a clip for holding down the tie as in the case with a full dress shirt.

The clips may be removed from the tie simply by drawing the tie in order out of the several slots and any tie which can be passed through the slots of the buckle selected may be converted from a non-adjustable into an adjustable tie by threading itthrough the slots in the manner illustrated in Fig. 8.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

An adjustable length necktie comprising a single length oi flexible material and including relatively broad knot or how forming ends and a relatively narrow long intermediate neck portion, a-pair of flat slip buckles each slidably mounted on the narrow neck portion to position the same varying of said second named buckle and extending therefrom to the other end.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 26th day of June, A. D. 1926. r

SAMUEL SEMMEL. 

